His base saw in Trump what they wanted to see. Some saw a fighter who would stand up for them, others saw a vaunted truth-teller, and a few, truth be told, likely saw a potential white-nationalist hero.

Lots of insight in the Althouse thread. I have to admit I was pretty despondent when the Uniparty dispatched Palin, only to have Trump get shoved down their pencil necks. Get rid of Trump and we'll come back even harder.

Arpaio's conviction for criminal contempt of court was a case of Obozo's Justice Department out to "get their man". The judge who issued the original twenty (or was it forty) page order which Arpaio allegedly defied was willing to settle for civil contempt. Old Sheriff Joe would pay a fine and that was it. That was not enough for the Eric Holder holdovers and Loretta Lynch. They went before a different judge and pushed for a criminal contempt decision Old Sheriff Joe was going to go to the pokey by gum! Well they got what they wanted.

And that has Senator Flake (his name fits him to a T) and the Senile Maverick all up in arms. Well kiss my grits boys I was born in Arizona and am ashamed to think that it sent you two to the Senate.

Hate to disagree but I believe the outcome will be the equivalent to cheap suit folding.

I don't think so, TK. I wouldn't feel that way pre Trump but the way it looks is he's reset everything. Hopefully it won't come to that but the jackasses seem to be unalterably opposed to doing things the easy way.

Let me put it this way: I'm much more confident than I was eight years ago when all the doom and gloom mavens (and I think you know who I'm talking about) were really pissing me off but I didn't have a good retort.

I hope all the fake news is buried under the 20th anniversary of Princess Di's death on the 31st. :) I remember we were moving the daughter into her room junior year of college and a guy (obviously hungover) in the next housing unit,yelled to us as we were taking stuff out of the car,"hey,I heard the Queen died." Ha.

Well I went to one of the early tea parties. Even brought my little son and waved signs. 8 years later and older, I'd be a hall of a lot more likely to take to the streets now than I was then, and would have no plans to clean up after myself this time.

Trump was the biggest fuck you to the establishment in my lifetime, and if they get to have an even bigger one back, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'll take very unkindly to that.

"The speaker does not agree with the decision," Ryan's spokesman Doug Andres told The Wall Street Journal. "Law-enforcement officials have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the United States. We should not allow anyone to believe that responsibility is diminished by this pardon."

Another Patriot Prayer presser, in this one, the steps the city was taking to foment violent interaction are spelled out. Also, the fact that the politicians are slandering the people was asserted. Pelosi says this group is a white supremacist group. The speakers note that the politicians are dividing the people, so the politicians can continue to operate in the corrupt system that they created for their own benefit.

Ryan is playing with fire and he's too grandiose to feel the heat. He has no idea the political pain he will shortly endure, especially if he nurtures any ridiculous notions of running for the presidency in Trump's lifetime.

Has Speaker Ryan had similar comments about the lawlessness and destruction of evidence by high officials at the IRS? Or about the lies and crimes and open contempt of Congress shown by Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch? Or about the persecutions and Nazi-style tactics employed against his,own constituents in Wisconsin by rogue prosecutors?

I had rented a car and driven to Barnstaple to play golf and lying in my bed that morning I heard Diana had died. I was staying at the Barnstaple Hotel, getting awake to play Saunton Links on the Bristol channel of Devon. Couldn't believe it.

Coincidence, when Charles met her and picked her up she lived in a very nice apartment on Old Brompton Road just down the road from me on Harrington Gardens and where my associate had his apartmtent. Of course, that was years before we were there but still eerie.

Later that week I walked over to Kensington Gardens to look at the floral tributes at the palace and then stood on the curb for the hearses and parade to go by.

The American Bar Association today launched a new web-based fact check service to help the public find dependable answers to swirling and sometimes confusing legal questions.

The site, ABA Legal Fact Check, is the first focusing exclusively on legal matters. The project is one of several initiatives launched by Hilarie Bass, who became the new ABA president on Tuesday at the close of the ABA Annual Meeting in New York.

“In a world with multiple sources of information, it is often difficult to distinguish between fact and opinion,” Bass said. “Through our new ABA Legal Fact Check, the American Bar Association will use case and statutory law and other legal precedents to help set the record straight by providing the real facts about the law.”

ABA Legal Fact Check will explore widely disseminated legal assertions. Initial postings examine whether individuals can be punished for burning the American flag, explore who has the constitutional authority to redraw U.S. Circuit Courts and offer explanations on the power of presidential pardons and hate speech, among other topics.

Frau 6:51. You have no idea how much trouble that demonstration has caused my partner and me in the last 24 hours. Police could not help and by the time news got to me, it was over except for the ripples.

We survived Obama although how much damage he did and continues to do is yet to be determined.

I really think that if '10 and '14 had turned out differently he wouldn't have left. He wouldn't have needed to.

As far as Charlottesville goes, the local community has spoken. The councilmen that voted to remove the statue no longer have jobs-they were voted out of office and pretty sure the supporting cast-the cowardly mayor (he voted to keep the statue by-and-by) and vice mayor (an appointee) will be updating their resumes in short order.

The Arpaio pardon-the presidential pardon power is absolute-full stop.

sbw, Trump shut down new debt for Venezuela for anyone who wants access to the US banking system. E.G. Russia, China. This makes existing debt worth even less, so GS will take one in the shorts two days after they bought. Yes they can still sell existing bonds, so can everyone else. But the losses will be huge.